Ken Jeong

Kendrick Kang-Joh Jeong (last name pronounced JUNG) was born in North Carolina in 1969 to Korean immigrant parents, father D.K. Jeong, and mother, Young Jeong. The elder Jeong taught economics in college, and his son shared his father's academic aptitude. In high school Jeong focused on getting into a good college; he served on the student council, played violin in the school orchestra, and competed on the High IQ team. In 1986 he graduated from Page High School in Greensboro, NC, at the age of 16, and won Greensboro's Youth of the Year award for his academic success. His first foray into acting did not occur until his sophomore year at Duke University, where he took his first drama clas... Continue Bio >>